I swear we had much more real fun with friends than kids nowadays chained to video devices, iPhones, iPads etc playing video games. Tree houses, exploring in the woods, fireworks, cap guns, bb guns and then .22 rifles. Riding bikes everywhere possible, fishing in creeks and ponds, swimming in lakes, riding horses, playing with your girlfriend in the hayloft, climbing trees, looking for arrowheads in farm fields, playing baseball, basketball, football in the neighborhood, going to movies on Saturday morning, eating real hamburgers with real meat at the drug store soda fountain counter while reading comic books, putting together model airplanes, playing board games on rainy days, telling ghost stories at night, catching snakes and keeping them in a cage for a week or so. Playing hiding and go seek after it got dark, playing games throwing a knife down between your buddies feet, making slingshots and bow and arrows, making go carts from four old wagon wheels and old lawn mower engine that still worked, and making corn shooters out of clothes pins with the metal spring. These are just a few of the things we did when not in church or school. My young grandsons just spend 99% of their free time glued to video games. The young kids today are really deprived in terms of outdoor fun.
